Being a Confederate state over 100 years again doesn't make Virginia geographically a Southern state -- because it's not. And, anyone who lives here knows that VA is as much -- or -- more -- "Yankee" as it is "Southern."

The incongruous nature of the holiday, which simultaneously celebrated the lives of Confederate generals and a civil rights icon, did not escape the notice of Virginia lawmakers. Legislators protested the holiday by waving pictures of Jesse Jackson, Spike Lee, and Martin Luther King, Jr. around the state capitol. In 2000, Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore proposed splitting Lee-Jackson-King Day into two separate holidays, with Lee-Jackson Day to be celebrated the Friday before what would become Martin Luther King Day. The measure was approved and the two holidays are now celebrated separately.

Mom: You girls can all drink in Hawaii.Katie: No, we can't.Mom: Yeah, because it's an island.Katie: It's a state.Mom: It's an island. Islands don't have drinking ages.Katie: Yeah, but it's a state. You have to be 21.Mom: But it's an island.

(it continued on for awhile longer)

My mother was then seriously surprised when we arrived in Hawaii and I was the only daughter who could purchase alcohol.

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